Talk:Dona Strauss

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 01:17, 14 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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... that mathematician Dona Strauss left South Africa over apartheid, lost a faculty job at Dartmouth for joining an anti-war protest, and helped found European Women in Mathematics? Sources: apartheid: mentioned early on in the (audio-only) interview at [1]; Dartmouth: multiple sources including [2]; EWM: [3] (with her name misspelled).

Reviewed: Celia Rowlson-Hall

Created by David Eppstein (talk). Self-nominated at 19:04, 29 September 2019 (UTC).[reply]

This article is new enough and long enough. The hook facts are cited inline, the article is neutral and I detected no copyright or plagiarism issues. --K.e.coffman (talk) 21:07, 29 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A fact from Dona Strauss appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 October 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that mathematician Dona Strauss left South Africa over apartheid, lost a faculty job at Dartmouth for joining an anti-war protest, and helped found European Women in Mathematics?

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